You can't stay "the good guys" if you don't keep an eye on your boys...
There's always some asshole willing to commit crimes under the cover of the fog of war. And you can't keep all of them off of your team.
This guy isn't wrong...
Bullshit. The founding fathers spent years exhausting every legal remedy they could come up with.
Only when they concluded there was no adequate legal remedy did they act outside the established law.
Read the Declaration of Independence. It says exactly that.
I'm not saying we aren't closer than we've ever been in my lifetime, or closer than I ever imagined we'd be in my lifetime, but it is incorrect to imply that the founders were at all quick to violence.
"Packet traffic" isn't worthless.
It establishes that there was communication between machines being used to count our votes and a foreign country.
It establishes a very good reason to ask "why?"
That is how investigations happen. Providing some evidence of wrongdoing convinces a judge to give you power to investigate further. In a criminal case, this typically means warrants and subpoenas. In a civil case, it means discovery and subpoenas.
That is how you get to an airtight case. Right now, we absolutely have enough evidence to demand that someone be given the investigatory authority to issue warrants, discovery demands, and subpoenas on behalf of the American people.
This is how justice is (or was) handled in this country.
Check out the browser "Brave".
It's based on the same open source project as chrome. Except, with chrome, Google takes the open source base and tacks on a bunch of extra stuff to track you everywhere.
Brave chooses to go to the opposite extreme, enabling by default all of the privacy protections you'd want. There's even a mode which fires up TOR for really private browsing.
But what made me bring it up here is the revolutionary model they are testing for monetizing web content. Instead of each page you visit showing you ads, the browser occasionally offers you one.
If you're too busy, or not interested, you can ignore (or you can set it not to bother you at all). Or, you can take a look at the ad. If you do that, the brave advertising network credits you with some tokens.
Then, you set your browser to distribute your collected tokens as you see fit. I think by default, it does it according to which sites you spend the most time on, but you can alter it.
The long and the short of this is that the user gets to decide what content should be monetized with the money paid to attract their eyeballs, not some "totally neutral" content police.
Could be yuge, if enough people get in.
I think we here can all understand why this is important.
Give it a swing, pedes.
PS- I'm not affiliated with them at all. I just discovered it last week, and think this stuff is important.
I haven't looked into their political leanings... But the tech is designed to break central control over your information, so I'm in.
Am libertarian. Understand deeply seated fear of any human being having the kind of power Trump will have after invoking the insurrection act.
Historically, it's just not wise to entrust anyone with that kind of power, and this country was built specifically to stop that from happening. Then our illustrious two party system methodically removed essentially all of the checks on executive power.
However, we are talking about a fear of what Trump might do vs what actual power hungry socialists have done and continue to do.
If Trump turns into a maniacal dictator (as CNN insists he will do), it will suck, and we will be forced to deal with that. However, the deep state is already acting that way.
Trump is the only man who seems to have the ability and the will to do anything about it.
I get that people are deeply mistrustful of a technological solution they may feel that they don't understand well enough to verify. However, it's not that hard to understand, and the advantages it could provide are real.
Closed sourced software has NO PLACE in government at all, least of all in our elections, where transparency and credibility are absolutely foundational to the integrity of our republic.
However, open sourced, blockchain based vote tabulation software could be built to be absolutely secure, allow voters to see where their vote is tabulated, maintain ballot secrecy, and be perfectly publicly auditable, because blockchain technology is a public fucking ledger based on insanely secure public/private key crypto.
We would have to hold zero trust for the corrupt election officials on election day. All security would be based on a good ID match at the time of voter registration and key verification.
It's insane to contemplate using anything else given how secure we could make that.
I think this may be where we end up...
But damn, I don't want to go down that path.
Thinking about where we will wind up in the aftermath leaves few good outcomes.
If GEOTUS and Sidney really have absolutely incontrovertible evidence, then maybe the people who have fully integrated TDS into their emotional identity will open their eyes?
But denial is a hell of a drug. I don't know what it will take to regain the trust of the American electorate, and invoking the Insurrection Act will unbelievably effectively stoke the fears of otherwise reasonable victims of TDS transmitted into their minds by the near unanimous complicity of the (once sacred) American Press.
One idea for creating a viable path to healing for the country after being forced to invoke the Insurrection Act:
George Washington set an important example by retiring from public life at the end of his second term. What GEOTUS has done will mean more and be remembered with greater reverence if he shows that he, like Washington, is the exceptionally rare kind of man who can walk away from a people clamoring for him to assume absolute power.
In fact, I would love to see Trump, having already arrested the perpetrators of the greatest crime in American history and presented iron clad evidence of their guilt, and having ordered the disbandment and rebuilding of the entire US intelligence community, I would love to see Trump take his hand off the bible on January 20, casually turn to Mike Pence and Sidney Powell, toss them the keys to the White House, and walk off into the sunset.
The message that would send would absolutely shatter the republicrat narrative of the man's ego and lust for power and enshrine this man's accomplishments and words in an aura of legitimacy and righteousness that has been absent from American politics for far too long.
Beyond that, our man has fought his fight. He's gone toe to toe with the most powerful forces of corruption in world history, and demolished them. Let him reap the rewards of a life well lived. Let him go home to his family.
Just a suggestion, President Trump, of how to cement your legacy for the history books, how to silence every single one of your detractors...
Until then, #HOLD THE LINE!
I get that people are deeply mistrustful of a technological solution they may feel that they don't understand well enough to verify. However, it's not that hard to understand, and the advantages it could provide are real.
Closed sourced software has NO PLACE in government at all, least of all in elections, where transparency and credibility are absolutely foundational to the integrity of our republic.
However, open sourced, blockchain based vote tabulation software could be built to be absolutely secure, allow voters to see where their vote is tabulated, maintain ballot secrecy, and be perfectly publicly auditable, because blockchain technology is a public fucking ledger based on insanely secure public/private key crypto.
We would have to hold zero trust for the corrupt election officials on election day. All security would be based on a good ID match at the time of voter registration and key verification.
It's insane to contemplate using anything else given how secure we could make that.
I'm still hoping (perhaps foolishly) that this thing is resolved without violence in our streets.
But not so foolish as to fail to prepare for the case that I do not get my wish.
You are right that the elitist/globalist narrative is working overtime to discredit absolutely any use of civilian violence, no matter how justified.
Kyle Rittenhouse is an American Hero.
He went to answer the call of his community in need. He went with love in his heart, his med bag on his hip, and his rifle on its sling. He rendered medical assistance to his fellow Americans, regardless of whether he agreed with their political views.
He didn't open fire until there was absolutely no other option. And then he committed no collateral damage.
H. E. R. O.
We need to teach our children to have the courage, integrity, and love to
#BeLikeKyle
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct"
I don't think a court would have the balls to attempt to invalidate electors sent by a legislature that wasn't called into session by the man accused of the steal...
There is a very good argument here that, because this power rests solely with the legislature, they do not require any kind of action from the executive to exercise this power.
And if the dems were to challenge such a move in court... well, they'd have to explain why it was so important not to let the legislature perform their constitutionally appointed duty to safeguard our elections. Bad optics.
This is a time when, even if the constitution didn't provide an excellent backing for this action, breaking the rules to right an obvious wrong can be the act of courage that breaks loose the dam.
String any three words together into a sentence and we can argue over the meaning indefinitely...
Then rig it so each of us feels that our livelihoods depend on the outcome...
It doesn't matter how simply you write out the rules... there is always room for interpretation.
The first amendment technically states "Congress shall make no law..."
But we all believe that the other two branches of government are equally barred from infringing our first amendment rights...
For the record, I agree with you on an emotional level. It breaks my heart that the supreme court has repeatedly failed to stand up for our rights. I also wish we could remove justices who don't follow the clear meaning of the constitution.
However, under our current system, those are the people who decide what the constitution means. I don't know that there's a better way...
Block chain voting.
Public fucking ledger.